Many people feel that sit-ups are a very healthy exercise method with good fat loss, but is it credible that a recent health checkup in the U.S. showed that 56% of soldiers suffered back damage due to long-term sit-up exercises, leading to lumbar disc herniation? This has to be explained from the cause of lumbar disc herniation. Analysis of lumbar disc herniation After sorting out the problem, let’s first understand what lumbar disc herniation is. Lumbar disc herniation is due to the fact that the parts of the lumbar intervertebral discs are under external pressure, which leads to the destruction of the fibrous ring of the intervertebral discs, causing the adjacent spinal nerves to be stimulated or compressed, thus giving the patient a feeling of pain in the lower back. Lumbar disc herniation can lead to a series of symptoms such as numbness, tingling and pain in the lower limbs in severe cases. You can see that lumbar disc herniation is still very painful. Formation of lumbar disc herniation causes In fact, many patients suffering from lumbar disc herniation are not congenital, but acquired. Herniated lumbar discs are mainly caused by poor posture, sitting for a long time, bending over and bearing weight. Of course, lumbar disc herniation is not caused by 1 or 2 times of poor sitting posture, sedentary, stooping, etc., but the accumulation of bad habits, so to say goodbye to the lumbar disc herniation must start from the daily habits, daily life to minimize the pressure on the lumbar spine. Analysis of sit-ups Back to the main topic, then look at the sit-ups, sit-ups are mainly exercise abdominal muscles, this fitness friends know. The correct sit-up action will use the buttock muscles, abdominal muscles, lumbar muscles, etc., so that in the process of doing the action of the human body needs to arch the back, arching the back of the result is to give the spine pressure, including lumbar spine, of course. Derive the effect of sit-ups on lumbar disc herniation Through the analysis of lumbar disc herniation and sit-ups, we know that patients suffering from lumbar discs can not give too much pressure on the lumbar spine, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms of lumbar disc herniation. Secondly, we know that the process of doing sit-ups requires arching the back, which will give the lumbar spine a certain amount of pressure, and the size of the pressure depends on the amplitude, strength, angle, etc. of the practitioner doing sit-ups. So finally concluded that patients with lumbar disc herniation try not to do sit-ups. How to do sit-ups for patients with lumbar disc herniation If patients with lumbar disc herniation must do sit-ups, it is recommended to reduce the amplitude of the sit-up movement during the sit-up process, such as doing half-body sit-ups. The action process should be gentle and slow, do not move in the process of fast, sudden force.